How far the once mighty bernie oaks have fallen . . .

[enid602]

. . . having to cite WV as proof of the viability of ther revolution. Beyond sad. Somewhat quixotic.

[Logical]

1. LOL, and hillary still is losing states to him. She is really terrible at closing the deal. nt

[synergie]

54. Bernie is not only losing states to her, but the popular vote, the pledged delegate count

and people who know him and have worked with him refuse to endorse him. He's kind of even worse at closing the deal, no matter how many false promises he makes that if only those "low info" people would hear his preaching, they'd vote for him. The more people know about him the less likely they are to ensure that he closes any deal that doesn't send him back to his NRA friends in Burlington.

It's cute that you attack her , when he's such a worse FAIL, that's propped up by Ratfuckers* for Trump. Even with all the dirty tricks, he can't seem to ever win, why is that?

*note that ratfucking is an actual term used in politics for what Bernie's Trump supporter votes
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ratfucking

[Redwoods Red]

2. Really? Stay classy.

[silvershadow]

3. He's so mighty he gave her some shade during her unmentionable ordeal. She's damn

lucky to have him.

[ScreamingMeemie]

4. He is giving a wonderful speech.

Addressing the little people... the ones Trump and Hillary don't have time for. I am proud he's keeping his promise to us.

[whatchamacallit]

5. Another dumbass post

[Octafish]

6. People of West Virginia are TOPS in every way.

They have given their best to make the United States great. They deserve the best the nation has to offer.

Unlike most politicians who only pay attention to the wealthy, Bernie Sanders treats them with the respect they deserve.

[Jitter65]

10. Not true. He didn't even respond to their plight until after Hillary present her plan

to revitalize coal communities and gave her impassioned speech about not forgetting the people who kept our lights on. The record is clear. She made a bad mistake in explaining her plan and paid a price, although the voters would not have changed that much but she at least would not have left a bitter taste in their mouths. Minchin was supporting her because of her early attention to Appalachia.

[Luminous Animal]

16. Nope. He already had a plan for fossil fuel states to retool and be part of the 21st century. And he

didn't proclaim they were out of a job. He laid out how they would have a job.

Bonus video to my response…


http://digg.com/video/prince-creep-cover-coachella-2008

[Armstead]

20. Um....he was paying attention to WV long before the primary

2013
http://www.sanders.senate.gov/life-in-mcdowell-county

At the county level, Fairfax County, Virginia, which sits just outside of Washington, D.C., has the highest average life expectancy in the nation with an average of 82 years. Just 350 miles away in McDowell County, West Virginia, the life expectancy for men is just 64 years – an 18 year difference. Men in McDowell County have the same life expectancy as men in Namibia. For women, the county in the U.S. with the highest life expectancy is sunny and wealthy Marin County, California, where the average is 85 years. The lowest in the nation is Perry County, Kentucky, with an average life expectancy of 73 years – a 12 year gap. The life expectancy for women in McDowell County, West Virginia, where life expectancy is second lowest in the country following closely behind Perry County, is equivalent to that of Mongolia (Wang et al., 2013; World Health Organization).

Sen. Bernie Sanders, who chairs the Senate Subcommittee on Primary Health and Aging, held a congressional hearing in 2013 on “Dying Young: Why Your Social and Economic Status May Be a Death Sentence in America.” In addition to receiving testimony from physician and research experts on health, economic, and educational factors that contribute to disparities in life expectancy, Sanders also invited Sabrina Shrader, a 30-year-old social worker born and raised in McDowell County to participate in the hearing and share her personal story.

To follow up on the hearing, two members of Sanders’ subcommittee staff recently made the six-hour drive from Washington to meet with Sabrina and see McDowell County and her hometown of Twin Branch firsthand. Sabrina currently lives with her husband in Athens, West Virginia, which is located in Mercer County, about an hour-and-a-half drive from Twin Branch. She works full time for a nonprofit civic engagement organization and is pursuing a Master of Social Work degree.

When Sabrina finishes school and returns to McDowell, as is her hope, she will be among the 5 percent of McDowell County residents with a graduate degree. Only 64 percent of adults in McDowell County have a high school degree or higher, compared to more than 85 percent nationally. Fewer than 6 percent of McDowell County residents have a bachelor’s degree or higher, compared to the national average of nearly 29 percent (U.S. Census American Community Survey).

Dec. 1915

http://www.theintelligencer.net/page/content.detail/id/648898/Displaced-Coal-Miners-May-Get-Re---.html

WHEELING -Some Democratic U.S. senators hoping to reduce pollution associated with burning coal are supporting a new measure they say will help displaced miners by providing $41 billion to transition those workers into "clean energy" jobs.

Sen. Bernie Sanders, I-Vt., who is also a 2016 Democratic candidate for president, joined Sens. Jeff Merkley, D-Ore., and Ed Markey, D-Mass., this week in sponsoring both the American Clean Energy Investment Act of 2015 and The Clean Energy Worker Just Transition Act. Proponents of the legislation believe these measures would drive over $500 billion worth of clean energy investments over the next 15 years.

According to Sanders, Merkley and Markey, coal communities have been under pressure for decades as coal-mining jobs have been lost due to more efficient mining practices, competition from cheaper natural gas and the public's desire to move to cleaner sources of energy. They said their legislation would provide unemployment insurance, health care and a pension for up to three years for displaced coal miners, as well as up to four years of new job training at a college or vocational school.....

[k8conant]

39. Manchin is a DINO

and Shelley Moore Capito (R-WV) is even worse.

[politicaljunkie41910]

53. When I heard her plan for WV it sounded fine. The problem seemed to be when people cut and pasted it

into compaign ads for TV and cut out her plan for creating clean jobs for coal miners. Also, the jobs lost would have been lost anyway because the mining companies have moved away from underground mines to removing coal from above ground which doesn't require as many workers as those jobs which were below the ground. So in the end, she didn't do anything to hurt them at all actually. I learned this from watching CNBC and someone was on the show yesterday discussing the plight of WV coalminers. He said it was the companies' that no longer need the services of the miners because they have moved on to extracting that coal which is above ground.

[Barack_America]

7. Expand on your opinion of WV being lesser.

Please, proceed.

[enid602]

15. not lesser

By no means lesser, but I would imagine bern wouldn't mind trading WV for NY, CT, PA or MD. THAT was breathtaking, AND a game cjsnger.

[Fawke Em]

21. Connecticut... oh yeah...

https://twitter.com/MDontheright/status/729767009991438338

Yes, this was posted by a Trump fan, but this is Connecticut, not Texas. These kids won't be voting Trump.

[Fawke Em]

17. They only love the early South, before social media forced some coverage of Bernie.

[kiva]

8. Sorry, were there other state primaries today?

Because on a day that a state holds a primary we tend to, you know, talk about that primary. Of course we understand why you would prefer to change the topic.

[morningfog]

9. Go suck on your sour grapes.

[scscholar]

14. Oh you (ntxt)

[Armstead]

11. and Indiana and Michigan and New Hampshire and etc.

[MuseRider]

12. Poor you.

I mean really. You have to stoop to this kind of post? Musta hurt a lot tonight.

Snotty.

Bye.

[dflprincess]

13. Another attempt to unite the party?

You may want to work on your delivery.

[enid602]

19. more than enough.

I think bern and his supporters have already done more than enough in that department.

[PufPuf23]

18. Pathetic deliberately disruptive OP.

Sanders easily won the primary election in West Virginia.

Hillary Clinton finished a distant third to Sanders and Trump in absolute number of votes.

Sanders is a better candidate in the general election than Hillary Clinton against Trump specifically and GOP in general.

Sanders promotes policies that liberal and progressive and the party of FDR and JFK.

Hillary Clinton promotes the neo-liberal economic and foreign policies that have harmed most Americans and are GOP in nature.

I am proud for the Democrats and independent liberals in West Virginia.

[nadinbrzezinski]

22. hate much? or is this the real reason

the fact that a state she won in 2008 with some decision, she lost tonight and in every county?

by the way. this unity tour is really not going to work with this tone. That is a pro tip. not that I suspect you care. For all I know you would prefer that Sanders supporters stay home in November.

[enid602]

30. guilty

You got me, Nadin. I'm just full of hate. So much so that I spend all my days, 24/7 just thinking up and posting things to make the other candidate look corrupt, conservative and treasonous. And when I run out of new ideas, I just recycle the old ones. Without end. Things that make simple concepts like charity and public service sound like the work of the devil. Because that's how revolutions are won.

By the way, 40% of bern's votes in WV said they plan to vote for Trump anyway.

[nadinbrzezinski]

31. You mean democrats said that?

shocking! I mean good democrats would never ever, like ever fall from the wagon and vote for the other side (Like in 1980 with Reagan Democrats, or 2000 with Bush Democrats). I am sure those folks will burn in hell for that sin. Or were you not aware that Rs did not vote in your precious primary and that the majority of those votes were not the decline to state voters, otherwise known as unaffiliated or in more parlance independents.

And the number was not 70, more like 44 percent. Not only you hate, but you lie well.

But perhaps most folks on the LW should just stay home. You guys keep telling LW progressives that they really are not needed.

[enid602]

37. sorry

Sorry. Typo. Meant to say 40%. I edited to correct.

[nadinbrzezinski]

38. Ok but the rest still applies

what happens if people do indeed stay home and you lose in the GE? You will blame the voters right?

[enid602]

41. blame

I would blame the purists. Time to get pragmatic. And soon.

[m-lekktor]

24. wow you Hillary people seem a bit rattled tonight!

[VOX]

25. C'mon, now, be polite...please. n/t

[Ned_Devine]

26. Right. The inevitable former SOS, 2 Term NY Senator and wife of a fmr. POTUS

...is being chased to the end by a 74 year old democratic socialist from Vermont. And he's the one that's fallen? Sounds good to me.

[enid602]

28. 40%

With the help of some WV voters, 40% of whom plan on voting for Trump anyways.

[beedle]

32. You mean like all the southern states

Hillary won at the start of the primaries?

Flip flopping is in the blood of 3rd way dems

[Scootaloo]

57. Well, Mississippi is a swing state now

Or... something, I guess.

[Ned_Devine]

34. Anyways isn't a word. It's any way

And it's not just WV. It's all the heavy blue and purple states he's won over HRC by wide margins. It's ok though. You can hang on to all of your bullshit memes and cuddle up with them at night to keep you warm.

[akbacchus_BC]

36. Oh no, you really schooled that DUer on grammer! Sometimes it is needed for clarification.

Good for you!

[Ned_Devine]

40. I expect to hear poor grammar like that on the sports radio call in shows

...but around here, let's try to sound a little educated.

[enid602]

42. per grammarist.com . . .

"Anyway vs. anyways
Anyways is a colloquial variant of the adverb anyway. It has a casual tone and may be considered out of place in formal or serious writing. In such contexts, anyway is safer.
Although considered informal, anyways is not wrong. In fact, there is much precedent in English for the adverbial -s suffix, which was common in Old and Middle English and survives today in words such as towards, once, always, and unawares. But while these words survive from a period of English in which the adverbial -s was common, anyways is a modern construction (though it is now several centuries old).
Anyways is sometimes useful for creating an informal or colloquial tone, which may be what these writers have in mind."

Funny, they don't mention anything about any way being preferable to anyway. Did you make that up?

[Ned_Devine]

43. Keep saying it then

If I was interviewing two applicants for the same job and they each had identical resumes and one said anyways and the other said anyway, I would take the one that said anyway...or any way as I prefer.

[akbacchus_BC]

44. Oops, my bad, it is grammar, you are right, LOL

My spelling is going wayward these days!

[Ned_Devine]

46. Ha! I didn't even notice!

I was referring to "anyways". it's just a huge pet peeve of mine.

[akbacchus_BC]

48. I know, but how do you say 'any ways'? When you type it as one word. Spell check

correct it as two words. Sorry, not to make light of the original post.

[akbacchus_BC]

59. I figured it out, it is 'any way' not 'anyways'. Thought I would let you know.

Lets get back to the conversation.

[thucythucy]

27. Why the condescension toward voters in West Virginia?

And BTW, revolutions can start in the most unlikely of places. Lexington and Concord weren't exactly the hub of the universe in 1775.

[Hiraeth]

29. beyond sad. this OP.

honestly.

[akbacchus_BC]

33. Please go away, you are a bad example of Hilary trying to unite Democrats!

[Vote2016]

35. I'm sure Hillary meant to lose yet another state. Good luck in Oregon!

[Waiting For Everyman]

49. Riiiiight. WV kicked Hillary to the curb tonight!!!

That's who fell tonight!!!
Way to go West Virginia!!!


Next Kentucky gets to have their say!

And Oregon can't wait to weigh in.

[akbacchus_BC]

51. I really hope Mr. Sanders gets the nomination. Gawd, Mrs. Clinton again in the White House!

But I prefer her than Trump. We all know he will hit her with shit like if you were for working class people for 20+ years, what have you achieved? We know that Mrs. Clinton is corporate and she does not care about lower income people. To me, Mr. Sanders gets it and that is what he is fighting for. Too bad, the person who will represent America can never be elected because the moneyed people will support the person who will represent them.

[mhatrw]

50. What's sad is how pathetic the candidate that the establishment has tried every trick in the books

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to shove down our collective throats is.

Even with EVERY corporate media mouthpiece trumpeting her inevitability over the last 18 months, she still cannot get 40% of the Democratic voters in a relatively conservative state to back her.

And half of the people who voted Democratic today hate her so much that they will switch to Herr Drumpf if she is nominated!

[akbacchus_BC]

56. You know what I find really pathetic is that a country of over 440 million people, that a used up

politician is now almost the Democratic nominee. Where on earth are the progressive Democrats who needed to run. Then Mr. Sanders surfaced and he is talking what Americans want to hear and yet he is not gaining ground! Look at O'Malley, fresh on the scene and could not gain any traction. Are Americans so much into the status quo that a younger guy like O'Malley, who pretty much had the same platform as Mr. Sanders, could not gain momentum!

[mhatrw]

61. It was hard to trust the newly minted "progressive" wonk over the plain talking clear progressive.

That is if you actually were a true progressive, unlike most Hillary Rockefeller Clinton fans.

[Scootaloo]

52. I see Clinton didn't win a single county in WV

I'm sorry that this makes you sad.

[Luminous Animal]

55. ….

https://www.facebook.com/CalmQuietCrazy/videos/543988442365896/

[akbacchus_BC]

58. My question is ... how this enid person has so many posts?

It is mind boggling how some DUers whom I have never seen on here suddenly surfaces with thousands of post. Am curious... do they contribute more than we do and get to the top! How does this work?

[Luminous Animal]

60. ….